Ok - well for my purposes, let's say we're not running in a console. We could be called from a Win32::Daemon service. So I'm trying to determine whether I'm running in a console (or terminal session) or not. So let me rephrase, The solution doesn't need to be generic. I can just have a condition to see if I'm running on Windows or *nix, and then do the appropriate check ... but I still need to know what the check would be